I like all the quicksters in all honesty. I just like hopping into discussions about them facing eachother off. But I also started another thread in the Off Topic section about the cosmic beings dueling off. Involving like One Above All, Phoenix Force, Living Tribunal, Spectre, etc. Love the saiyan abilities too, I also like to see what would happen if they pitted Saiyans against One Punch man lol. All just for kicks. But thanks for chiming in. 
I like the lightning the jumps off of the Flash too, and Quicksilver’s silver hair even though he’s like 20-25 lol.
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See I love those discussions but I’m not particularly well armed so I just sit back and listen. Hearing that the flash needs his suit for his powers for example was totally new information for me and that would be pretty key to an argument like that. So thanks for teaching me somethin new. And I’ll check that thread out as well, hopefully starts some good comic conversation
Meh hopefully. If not it’s okay. Just want to see if I can weed out some comic nerds such as myself lol. And it’s not so much the suit itself as it is the Speed Force, like how Jean houses the Phoenix Force. The suit is kind of the conduit. He could technically still be rather fast just the suit so long as there’s some power he can tap into, but Speed Force allows him to tap into almost limitless power for speed, but being that the Speed Force isn’t really locomotive, it kind of sucks if he’s anywhere else in the multiverse.
LOG # 143
DB complex
Same as usual
3 circuits
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LOG # 144
Bench
95lbs x5
115 lbs x 5
125 lbs x 5
Assistance:
Got excited for myself for whatever reason and decided to use a normal bench press assist with 135lbs. Technically speaking it’s about 60 pounds heavier than what my training setup has, but I wanted to see if I could complete all the volume with the notorious 135 pounds… and I did.
135lb: 5x10
I stopped literally one rep short because I was approaching failure and I got nervous for fear of not being able to re-rack fast enough. Needless to say, I did enjoy that much volume, but will do my best to not deviate out of curioisity (I’ll try, nothing’s promised lol)
Secondary:
Compound rows: 125lbs 5x10
Triceps pushdown: 70 lbs 3x10
BB hip thrusts: 135 2x15, 225 2x10
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LOG # 145
DB complex
Same as usual
3 circuits
3 mile walk
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LOG # 146
Tabata bike sprints
20 sec on
10 sec. rest
8 times (roughly 5 mins.)
Leisurely biking for another 10 mins.
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General update:
Weight has gone up to 206 in the morning upon waking. By the time I lay down for bed I’m around 208-210lbs. Waist measurement has stayed at 30.5, although recently it was 30in, after a day of fasting (just for fun).
Done with the first cycle of 5/3/1, two more to go. I REALLY want to test my maxes, but I’m holding off for as long as I can, but I’m getting excited.
Had to adjust some things diet wise because I’m tired of waking up hungry, and getting hungry in the middle of the day. So I added a mixture of MetRx, creatine, and magnesium before bed, and doubled the meal before training and before pre-workout nutrition. So we will see how this goes. That bumps my total calorie consumption for the day up from 3,060 to ~3,250-3,300. If it’s too much I’ll keep the shake, and cut back on lunch food.
Body measurements (just to see if any things changed within the couple of months):
Thighs-30in
Calves- 17.5
Waist- 30-30.5in.
Hips- 45in
Bust- 40in
Biceps- 15in
Forearms- 12.5
Wrists- 6.5in
Neck-14.5 in.
So a bit of change in some good places. I’ll equate most of this to lean mass gain, simply because my bust area, and my waist has stayed the same, usually if it’s mainly fat gain those are the first places to go up. The mirror has also been showing me good progress. I think some of it is also fat, but I’m proud of myself for it not being that much, so I say it’s a win this time.
I’m starting to finally develope pectoral muscles that you see some women have who are very muscular, FINALLY. I’ve always liked that look, however for me I have a lot of chest, so it just looks like I have chest muscles, under a bunch of breast. I also have short girl traps showing. The funny thing about being fun sized is everything else is also fun sized from perspective. They look like someone took traps off of a big person and shrank them to miniature size and nonchalantly stuck them on me. Back fat is widdling away still, and so are the love handles FINALLY. I equate this to actually getting up off of my butt and doing multiple sessions of some sort of conditioning within a day. I’ve taken a liking to tabata and complexes. And my top two abs have come by to say what’s up, which is nice however they are temperamental and leave as they wish. I’ve tried to implement running and I refuse to deal with shin splints. That crap hurts for some days afterwards. I blame the increase in body weight, but even when I was unnecessarily skinny I still got them. So I’m not sure.
Next on my list is to get one of these beautiful things:
And start pulling my moms SRT. My Versa is too tiny and I’m getting used to pushing and pulling it when i do.
Since I’m postponing the home gym until hubby takes his vacation to help me with it I’ll just slowly acquire some strongman stuff and have at it because it’s grown on me and I wish to start delving in it.
Someone at my gym also has atlas stone molds. We have concrete in our garage that I always stare at and finally have use for it now.
Since I’ve held up an agreement with my father he’s also going to get me some of these as well:
Ugh…the excitement.
Disclaimer: I’m about to talk about womanly issues. Don’t like it, please scroll along.
Haven’t been training for the past 3 days because my monthly cycle took a turn for the absolute worst this time around. It seemed okay, but I suppose it was the quiet before the storm. Some things were off which made me think I was okay, but I wasn’t. Usually I get an annoying flare up of acne, but this time my face was extremely clear. So I let my guard down.
HOWEVER. Upon waking I was greeted with severe fatigue to the point where I had to ask my husband to guide me to the bathroom. Cramps were basically non-existent, but I had no energy to eat, move, watch tv, let alone train, and my flow was shockingly heavy. I’m not a coffee drinker, but the second day I tried to drink some coffee before heading to the gym and had to turn around mid-drive because I was having trouble staying awake. I’ve been sleeping well into the next day, and as a consequence have not been keeping up with my calories. I’ve been falling about 500-600 calories short of my total daily calroies but I think it’s okay considering I’m not really moving around or doing anything. I’ve been dosing myself with iron, vitamin A and D, magnesium, and electrolytes accordingly, and drinking a lot of water. There isn’t much I can do about this, and all of my checkups have returned normal when I go for a physical, so I think this is just something I have to deal with. Happens to a lot of women, by I wanted to try and mitigate it as much as possible. And my mom topped it all off by giving me too many Tylenol (I’m not completely there when folks talk to me while I’m still asleep), which thinned my blood something fierce and made everything worse.
Today is the end of the third day, and I’ve forced myself to stay awake just so I can eat all of my meals, but at the same time I’m still painfully fatigued and energyless. To top it off I’m very irritated, and extremely pissy about absolutely nothing. I’ve asked my husband to keep distance, because he’s rather sensitive and I don’t want to hurt his feelings. He bought me a peace offering of trail mix because I love trail mix, and slid it under the door and left. Lol. Ive always disregarded PMS as women just overreacting but now I completely understand. I really do. It’s just a huge influx of hormones that you just have to deal with. Usually by this day or day four the bleeding has let up, but I fear it’s going to be another week long menstruation gap. Meh.
I’m just hoping I can scramble some remedies together fast enough. Hopefully tommorow I can jump back into the second cycle of 5/3/1, other wise I’ll have to wait another day, because I’m not overjoyed to accidentally hurt myself.
So that’s the just of everything for the time being. Usually I’d be devastated because I can’t train, but I’d do anything just to recover from this faster.
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LOG # 147
WEEK 2:
5/3/1 For strength (powerlifting) this week is a bit different with stuff a bit more heavier, but enough volume to still progress.
Warm-up: Agile 8
Squat
135x5
165x5
200x5
230x3
265x3
300x3
315x5 (technically this part can be used to do 3 reps, and that be it, but I went ahead and slapped on a “+” just because I had a few more reps in the tank. I suppose this is now my 5RM PR?) yay me?
Assistance
Leg press: 225lbs 3x10
hanging leg raises: 3x10
Secondary
body weight lunges
conditioning:
tabata bike sprints (going all out as fast as possible. resistance set at 15)
30 sec. on
10 sec. off
30 sec. on
10 sec. off
30 sec on.
10 sec. off
30 sec. on
10 sec. off
carry on for another 5 mins.
leisurely stretching and mobility work. Mainly working the hips, foam rolling, and a few yoga poses.
Surprisingly I shouldn’t have been as nervous as I was to start this second cycle for fear of stuff being too fatiguing. Nothing felt too heavy, and the squatting was well grooved and flowed nicely. Going to have to spend more time with the warm-up for my hips because they have gotten used to more volume over heavy stuff. Lower back felt okay, but I could feel the squatting making it tense up. Sciatica is behaving as well so all in all good show.
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Late night water therapy:
Saw a video of Brian Shaw and Furious Pete hopping in and out of hot tubs filled with ice cold water and simmering warm water. And I decided to try it because why not.
I put some Epsom salt in the warm water because, Epsom salt lol.
And put a 1lb block of ice I had frozen today in the other tub, after crushing it up as best I could.
We only have two bathrooms in our house so I put on a bathing suit and walked back and forth between my room and my moms room. In total this lasted for 30 mins. 5 mins in each tub
So ill see how I feel in the morning. My hip feels great at the moment so fingers crossed.
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Update from last night:
I agitated my lower back injury. The squatting isn’t what irritates it, more the squatting irritated my reproductive organs, which then irritated the muscles surround my lower back and Sacrum area. The aching I felt in my hips (both of them), is completely gone which usually happens after getting accustomed to a new heavy lift.
I had trouble getting to bed last night, and I had trouble getting into a comfy position, but I eventually fell asleep and slept for a while. My back is feeling 100% better, and its mere soreness that should go away by tomorrow. It more so the surrounding muscles around my lower back and SI area. It hasn’t leeched its away near the piriformis, because my sciatica is nonexistent.
I did the Agile 8 before lifting, but I feel like I’m just going to have go be patient and do it as many times as I need before squatting heavy.
As a plus going heavy yesterday has lightened up the bleeding, and I’m no longer tired, and am back on track. BUT I’m going to take this as a lesson to just rotate a heavy squat with perhaps a heavy bench day, if situations like this line up again.
The water treatment did a good number on my hips because they feel amazing. it also soothed my lower back very well, but I just need to leave that area alone for a bit.
So just be a bit more proactive when warming up, and maybe stretch out the treatment for 45 mins to an hour. And just leave my body alone during this time of the month. I have deadlifting scheduled next but I’m going to rotate that with bench because I’m not going through this anymore.
LOG # 148
4 min tabata burpees
4 min tabata bike sprints
Afternoon conditioning:
Zuzka Light workout minus the medicine ball ~10 mins
This woman is ABSOLUTELY gorgeous. And shredded.
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LOG # 149
Deadlift
135x5
155x5
215x3
245x3
280x3 + 2 singles (done after 5 min break, so I separated it)
305x2+ 1 single (was done after a 5 min break, same thing)
I am just now realizing why ive been struggling to break floor. Mainly because I hadn’t fully grasped what it meant to take the slack out of the bar. 280 was feeling heavy when it usually doesn’t. That first 305, I took the slack out and it came up perfectly. Ended up hitching the second rep, so I semi don’t want to count it. Third single was great, although I did round my upper back a bit, and I don’t like doing that so ill keep an eye on it.
Assistance:
switched out good mornings for seated ones because my lower back was getting very tight.
135lbs 2x10
Then went ahead and switched for back extensions because i didn’t want to agitate my back any longer)
200lbs 2x10
Secondary:
hanging leg raises w/ 5lb ankle weights: 4x12
abductor for hips: 250lbs 3x5, 100lbs 3x12
adductor: 100lbs 4x12
leisurely stretching 10 mins
5 min walk
light BB hip thrusts: 50lbs 5x10
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water therapy:
This time the water was as hot as I could stand, and the other tub was just cold water, no ice.
50 mins. total. 10 mins each back and forth
I don’t fully submerge myself in the hot water because it makes me sweat really hard, I do submerge myself entirely in the cold water.
add-ins:
jasmine tincture ~10 drops, Epsom salt, citrus bath bomb (hot water)
peppermint tincture ~ 15 drops (cold water)
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LOG # 150
Tabata bike sprints
Same as usual, 8 mins.
Found this funny post. Sums up my interactions with people fairly well.
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LOG # 153
Bench
75x5
95x5
115x3
130x3
170x7
185x2
Bench pressing is one of those things, concerning myself, where if I do not rest for at least 3-5 solid mins. I miss the heavier reps almost every single time. I’ve been trying to up intensity on upper body concerning benchressing, pulling, or anything involving dumbells, and it isn’t something that’s helping so I’m gonna take a rest for as long as I need to.
Assistance:
Close grip bench
135lbs 3x10
DB incline bench press: 50s 2x10
Secondary
Chest supported rows: 100lbs 3x10
Lat pulldowns: 100lbs 5x7
Wanted to try and get some extra volume in and fix a few form things because I’m rather disappointed in myself by how tight I’ve let my hip flexors become. Stretching and doing very light resistance bike pedaling is a good warm up for the time being and foam rolling when I come home, but the stretching needs to be done between sets because 1) I have big hips, and 2) the connecting tissue at my quads also needs some attention.
So for anything high volume I’m taking an narrow, middle bar stance, and my heavier stuff can be my usual setup combined with low bar, and maybe tighten the belt just a tiny bit tighter for extra support.
So I managed 7x10 with 135lbs, and the first set was me figuring out what felt best and the rest were me just going to town. Felt good, massive pump that’s still slightly uncomfortable. And then another stretching and leisurely bike pedal afterwards. Hips feel a lot better.
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So I went to a doctors checkup because my mom was worried about my cycle. As I suspected and told her repeatedly the entire day… I’m fine. But among the things the doctor checked he showed me something I completely forgotten about since elementary school. I have freaking left lumbar scoliosis. Thanks mom for passing that on down the line lol. I had completely forgotten. Which explains a heck of a lot when it comes to this weird pinching feeling I have just under the back of my very bottom rib. It immediately goes away as soon as I either lean a hair towards the right when sitting, or just stand up completely. It also explains why my shoulders aren’t even going across. I noticed it a while ago but just thought I was looking at myself weird.
Soooooooo… I have a new task of bringing up my right side concerning the back of my neck down to where my waist tapers off. It isn’t noticeable unless you actively stare at my shoulders for a very long time, but it is bothering me seldomly so it’s something I need to fix gradually. Doctor gave me some squishy back thing to lay on at night so I’ll have to get used to laying on that thing. He gave me a list of exercises to bring up the right side as well so I’ll do these on my off days, and some bracing ladder thing that folds so it’s portable, although I won’t really be taking that thing anywhere. Apparently my left side ( which is also my dominant side concerning writing and eating), is overcompensating, and I have noticed it sometimes when I’m not being mindful under really light weights.
It isn’t severe, or anything ,but like anything, if I ignore it, Or don’t take proactive measures It can be. I’m just glad he brought this to my attention, because up until I started middle school I completely forgot I even had this.
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